According to legend, the Great Wall was built by the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang (Reigned 221-210 BC), though historical records trace the true origin of the wall to defensive ...

He mobilized more than 300,000 people over a period of a dozen years to build the Great Wall, which stretches for 5,000 km in northern China. Qin Shi Huang had work on his enormous mausoleum ...

the stone sentry actually consists of many great walls, some dating back to the fifth century B.C. The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, ordered these earlier long wall sections linked and ...

The Great Wall of China started in the Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE). Emperor Qin Shi Huang joined different walls into one big ...

Qin Shi Huang (Kim Seung-ho), who unified China with an army of 500,000, takes Yong-nyeo (Kim Ji-mi), the daughter of a tribal chief, as a concubine on his way back to Hanyang; after spending a ...

During his rule, Qin standardized coins, weights, and measures; interlinked the states with canals and roads; and is credited for building the first version of the Great Wall. According to ...

Construction on the Great Wall began in the third-century BCE under Qin Shi Huang (Shihuangdi), the first emperor of a unified China, the History Channel reports. Prior to the Qin dynasty ...